Originally Posted by strelnik

Personally, I think the Westboro people are worthless turdz.

However, letting them protest does do several things (my opinion):

1. It wakes up people to the fact that you have to say NO to people like this, ignoring them will enable them to creep along and do damage and hurt people in mourning.

2. It guarantees their right to free speech, which they do have, as long as they are not advocating overturning of the govt by force

3. It stiffens the resistance against them.

I don't believe in the tire slashing, that's one step away from pulling the shotgun off the shelf. If you do it for that, you can do it for anything else you don't like.

In that case, be prepared for serious consequences !!!